Chapter 352: Timing
The generals of Dongjiang have actually been convinced for a long time, after all, the benefits of fairness, openness, and justice are unprecedented morale, and now they know that the generals under their command are intercepted according to the proportion, and they all ask to attack Jinzhouwei one by one.
At this time, no general Zuo thought that he could not take Jinzhou Wei with his current strength, because the Ming army had been shelling Jinzhou.
First, they killed the Hongyi cannon at the head of Jinzhou City, and then they began to concentrate artillery fire on the city wall.
The city wall looks thick, but in fact, the strength is debatable, and it is just rammed earth and outer city bricks.
Now it is subjected to the impact of large iron balls shot by cannons every day, and the bricks are torn off in pieces, and cracks will soon appear in the rammed earth, and then collapse will be formed.
Song Pengfei already had 20 six-pounder and six twelve-pounder field guns in his hands, and after completing the Hongyi artillery that had been deployed to destroy the head of Jinzhou City, he adopted the tactic of concentrating artillery fire to bombard a little.
At present, the section of the city wall of Xining Haimen in Jinzhou is facing shelling for five hours every day, and it has developed into a trend of broken walls.
The Ming army fired artillery every day to cause sabotage, and the Houjin army took advantage of the gap in artillery fire every day and night to carry out emergency repairs, and they had no good way but to fill the gap with cloth bags and hemp packaging sand and gravel.
Most of the work of urgently fortifying the city was done by the elderly, children, and women, because the generals of Nahai, Mandarhan, Hamudani, Ma Guangpu, etc., did not seem to be interested in these people.
Indeed, the "Red Banner Army" blockers are very conceited, they disdain to kill the old and weak women and children, and would rather kill the young and middle-aged Jiannu with empty hands, and if they kill one or two women and return to the camp, it will become a joke.
Song Pengfei and Zhao Kun and other generals also supported this, soldiers must have a proud backbone, and if they can do anything, they will fall behind.
Now Hanzi and Liu Zaiqi, the two people who have Minny guns, like to follow the action of the blockade team the most, Hanzi's reason is that he is closer to the city and can observe the Jinzhou city defense, and he takes four personal soldiers to go deep into the grassroots to practice marksmanship in actual combat.
Liu Zaiqi did not have a bull breaker, and the reason why he followed the team to fight cold guns was to carry out propaganda work in every combat combination, and the blocking team was no exception.
Liu Zhilun's good news reached the Beijing Division again, and the civil officials and military generals thought that the Battle of Jinzhou ended victoriously, but who knew that it was not this situation but an unexpected victory.
Fang Zhenghua and Li Ruolian led the Shenshu Battalion, Jinyiwei and all the cavalry of Dongjiang Town and the "Red Banner Army" to the north to attack and harass the Jiannu occupation area, once penetrating 800 miles, killing 4,500 young Jiannu and 30,000 Han people.
Chongzhen's joy when he received Liu Zhilun's recital was overflowing, and he gave Fang Zhenghua and Li Ruolian a first level on the spot, and the Shenshu Battalion and the Jinyi Guard Officer Zuo under their command were all promoted without exception, and after checking the merits when they came back, the generals who had made great contributions would be promoted again.
The emperor was happy in his heart, and more than 400 people went to the Shenshu Camp and Jinyi Guard, and even if half of the battle was lost, more than 200 people would be able to come back.
Based on these generals who have been on the battlefield in southern Liaoning and Jiannu with real swords and guns, the rectification of the Beijing camp and Jinyi Wei will be a matter of course, and at that time he will have tens of thousands of troops who can take on great responsibilities, so why not be afraid that the chief military officer will not listen to the dispatch of the imperial court.
The emperor gave the eunuchs and Jinyi Wei the simplest rewards, and directly ordered Wang Chengen or Cao Huachun to use the seal, but how to reward the "Red Banner Army" and the people who attacked Dongjiang Town needed to be handed over to the cabinet for decision.
Chongzhen began to have a headache after being happy, because he had won too much, and the three or four thousand wins of the last "Fuzhou Victory" should be rewarded with more than 100,000 taels of silver, and finally the head of the household department asked Xiong Ming, the secretary of the military department, to bargain with Liu Zhilun for 80,000 taels of silver and sent it away.
Liu Zhilun did not strive for the "Red Flag Army", but because the imperial court was this virtue, and being able to get 80,000 taels of silver at one time was already the result of the great influence of the "Fuzhou Victory" and the emperor's great importance.
Now there is another trouble that makes the emperor happy, that is, Liu Zhilun has reported more than 5,000 levels, and it is said that each of them is young and middle-aged, of which 3,000 are real slaves.
The "Red Banner Army" has a way to make money and talk well, Dongjiang Town is so poor that he can't afford to wear pants, I'm afraid he can't withhold their money, Chongzhen gritted his teeth and gave an order directly to the military department.
They were asked to verify the number of beheadings and immediately allocate the silver, which was presided over by Liu Zhilun, Fang Zhenghua, and Li Ruolian and distributed to every soldier who had obtained the beheading merit.
And conveyed the holy decree to inform the whole army, even if the Son of Heaven cut down on food and clothing, he would ensure that the beheading would be rewarded with silver, and hoped that the people and horses of Dongjiang Town and the "Red Banner Army" would move forward bravely in the next battle against Jinzhou, kill more enemies, and get more military rewards.
There was a piece of meat in southern Liaoning that was bitten in the mouth by the "Red Banner Army" and the Dongjiang soldiers, and the princes of the imperial court were not able to make it difficult to give money, food, and rewards.
During this period, Jin Sheng, Gao Youmou, and Zheng Xiaowen were not idle, and the official documents requesting to make up for the arrears of the "Red Banner Army" and Dongjiang Town were sent to the military department and the household department one after another.
Xu Guangqi, Gao Di, and Zheng Guochang all helped to urge salaries openly and secretly.
In order not to fall into the infamy of hindering the war situation in southern Liaoning, the method of demolishing the east wall and making up for the west wall basically made up for the "Red Flag Army's" food and salary.
Dongjiang Town's accumulated annual deficit was too much, and the household department adopted the method of judging matters from June this year to start paying salaries, and even so, Dongjiang soldiers felt that there had been earth-shaking changes.
Both the emperor and the ministers are educated, they can play power, and they will not be soft when they play unloading and killing donkeys.
But now the mill in southern Liaoning is still turning, not only can you not kill the donkey at this time, but you have to feed the essence, otherwise if you commit the donkey's temper, which court member will be stimulated, and who can take responsibility?
When the imperial court employed people, southern Liaoning was in a fierce battle, and Chongzhen had to make a wish again when he beheaded the silver.
Fang Zhenghua and Li Ruolian belonged to the retainers of the Son of Heaven and belonged to the same camp as the eunuchs who came to deliver the decree, and they learned from the angels that their respective promotions were only temporary, and the emperor publicly praised them for their courage to do things many times, and after returning to Beijing, the Son of Heaven would personally summon them and entrust them with important tasks to give heavy rewards.
The two of them were overjoyed to get the inside information, and they were both thinking about what was waiting for them.
Huang Han, who had only been the right governor for a few days, was given a jade belt, a mink fur, and a purple python robe, and he became the left governor of the crown prince and Taibao, and also got a title - General Pingliao.
This means that Huang Han has passed through the two years of elementary school, and the official positions of the former lord's great leader Zhao Shujiao have all fallen to Huang Han, and General Pingliao, the governor of Zuodu, is indeed better.
Huanglongguan was reinstated and still served as the chief military officer of Dongjiang Town, Yin Yizi was a hundred households of Jinyi Wei, and the rest of the meritorious people were promoted to a level and each given a scarlet python coat.